It has never been more important than now to elect solid conservatives with a voting record that backs up their rhetoric. So it is with Warren Petersen, who is running for Arizona Senate in LD12. As a state representative, he stood up for families and the unborn, for local support and control of education, and for the independent business person. His votes are testimony to his fight against overbearing regulations that hurt businesses and our economy. He has repeatedly protected our Second Amendment rights. Rep. Petersen is very knowledgeable about complex issues, and he knows how to protect the hard-working taxpayer from the big spenders at the Capitol.

It was the first time in his 30-year career that Kevin Vickers ever had to use his weapon. He shot and killed Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert. Zehaf-Bibeau was the son of a leading Canadian immigration official. Before Vickers stopped him, the gunman managed to shoot and kill Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old father standing guard at Ottawa's War Memorial. He also injured another officer.

Just kidding. The Arizona Republic didn't report this. As usual, the malpracticing "mainstream" media isn't interested in any news that doesn't fit their Leftist agenda. You have to check the "alternative" blogs to find out that more guns equal less crime. We found this at BearingArms.com.

From January 2013 to June 2013:

Nationwide, forcible rape was down 10.6 percent, burglary was down 8.1 percent, murder was down 6.9 percent, and aggravated assault was down 6.6 percent from the previous period. Arson plunged a staggering 15.6 percent.

There was slight increase (0.6-percent ) in murders in cities with a population of 25,000-49,999, and a 2 percent rise in murders in cities with a population of 50,000-99,999. The number of murders plunged the deepest in cities with a population of more than 1 million citizens, which reported a 18.5 percent drop.

Overall, violent crime dropped 5.4 percent, with the largest drop in non-metropolitan areas, which saw a 10.5 drop in overall violent crime, and a 13 percent drop in murders.

SB1294 is up for a committee hearing and vote on MONDAY, 02-10. Calls in support are needed all weekend long. Make sure the committee members know to vote YES on SB1294 on Monday!

On Jan. 30, Senator Kelli Ward of Arizona introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act SB1294. The legislation would prohibit the state from enforcing “any federal act, law, order, rule or regulation that relates to a personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition within the limits of this state.” Judge Andrew Napolitano has said that such legislation would make federal gun laws “nearly impossible to enforce.” Read more about it here.

STATUS – 02-10-14, Judiciary commitee hearing and vote. It will need to pass by majority vote to move on to the next stage. The meeting begins at 2 pm. Read the Agenda here.

YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED NOW. It doesn’t matter where in Arizona you live, take these actions today:

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men."